SECTION THE SIMPLE PAST | [6.1] The Simple Past: regular verbs * To form the Simple Past of regular verbs, add -ed to the \ | ‘base form of the verb. The past form is the same for all +the persons. 4 | You ees cit He/Sheilt worked Erika worked in a hospital last year. We She helped a lot of people. You 7 They | | + We use the Simple Past to talk about actions and situations that began and ended in the past. + We can use specific time expressions like yesterday, last week or last month with the Simple Past. | it rained day. He needed an umbrella, (EP) Section 3 (The simple Present) omplete the following sentences with the Simple Past of the verbs in brackets. “omplete the following sentences with the Simple Present or the Simple Past of the verbs ae ee ee | oe ee ae ee ee ee Co CoV lo ee ee ee ee oe oe ee et eee ee ee ee ee eel eel ee ee ee ee ee ee ee eet ee eee ee ee ee ee ee ee bet eet ey 1 it(rain)_cained __ yesterday 1p Det 2 Peter (wat for the bus. 1 Thuee years ago, Tisha (work) wockea ata 3 He (walk) To the office at 9.10. He bakery. was late 2 She (work) __ ina bank now. 4 First he (open) _ the windows, 3 very day, customers (call) _ heron 5 Then he llisten) tohis answering the phone machine 4 Yesterday, she (receive) phone calls 6 He (talk) to customers for several 5 She always (listen) tothe hours. customers very carefully 7 Then he (work) on his computer. 6 Usually, Trisha (answer) thelr 8 At1215,he was hungry. Soe (phone) questions quickly, but last week somebody restaurant. (ask) her a difficult question 9 He (orden __asandwich and a cup of coffee 10 He (tay) _ __in the office until 58 as usual 11 Peter (call a taxl to the aport 7 She (nat, be) sure of the answer. 8 On Tuesdays after work, Trisha (play) basketball in the park, but last Tuesday, she (stay) at work late to find the answer to that difficult question. 9 She finally (solve) the problem. 10 Then, last Wednesday, she (call) the customer back with the answer, =_—section rue siete east (3) what did you do yesterday? Use phrases in the box for ideas to answer the question. watch television - talk tomy uncle stay up late play a sport/game _ do my homework visit friends cook dinner listen to music clean my flat Yesterday I talked to my uncle on ‘the phone, + Yesterday, las.. and ago tell us when an action happened in the past. We use these words in the following ways yesterday. morning, afternoon and evening last general periods of time (night, week, month, year), days of the week (Monday, Tuesday, etc), seasons (summer, ‘winter, spring, auturnn) ago specific lengths of tine {five minutes ago, three months ago) + Time expressions usually come at the beginning or at the end of a sentence. When they come at the beginning, we use a cormma after the time expression. Yesterday morning, | walked to school. I walked to school yesterday morning,sectionGrrHe siMPLe PAST {B complete the conversation with yesterday, last or ago. Pamela: Where were you’ [called youfourtimes1 last __week Jan: Iwas in Lisbon. [was there for a conference. Itstarted2__————_s Monday and ended 3 Pamela: Lucky you. Ilove Lisbon in the autumn, [was there two years 4 _ {in October. The weather was beautifull Jan: Well, this October was terrible. The rain started two weeks 5 and stopped 6 ‘week for just two days. Then it started to rain again 7 afternoon, Pamela: 8 afternoon? Were'you in that traffic jam at the airport? Jan: es, [was. Iwas really tired 9 night when I got home. Iwas in bed by nine and opened ray eyes only an hour 10 Pamela: Qh, called you ten minutes____ but your phone was busy. Jan; ‘That was my brother, He called me about 20 minutes 12 _ He called me 13 night too, but I was asleep. Pamela: By the way, Jane called me 14 _ Jan: Really! Who's the lucky man? Pamela: His name is Tony Smith. She started to work with him three years 15, and they decided to get married last year. So they saved some money and decided on the wedding date 16 month, Jan: Tony Smith? Are you sure? Pamela: Yes, why? _ Friday. She's getting married! NGG [5] write about yourself using time expressions and the Simple Past. 1 Three months ago, I was. in Rio de Janeiro. 2 Last year 3 Last night, 4 Yesterday morning, 5 One hour ago, [6] Write about a friend using the same expressions. 1 Twee months ‘he was in 2 3 4 5 (2 correct the mistakes and rewrite the sentences. 1 Morning yesterday I walked to work__Yestecday moming, 1 waked +0 work, 2 Last evening, [phoned you. 3 I stay in the office until 5.00 yesterday. 4 Youwasn'tathome lastnight, 5 Icall your mobile phone but there was no answer, 6 Youwas very busy Tuesday last 7 You answer my message ago two hours. 8 Ago five minutes, talked to you finally.